He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Quotations
Music
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
